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ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, son of Sultan Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin – ruler of the Maghrib.
He was a sensible elder, but he did not conciliate (1) the military commanders, so they rose against him, deposed him, and strangled him in 621 AH. His reign therefore lasted nine months. -
ʿAbd Allah, son of Sultan Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin al-Qaysī,
styled al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (“the Just King”).
He served as viceroy over al-Andalus. When his uncle ʿAbd al-Wāḥid was strangled, the Franks in al-Andalus rebelled. Al-ʿĀdil confronted them, but his army was routed and, in his ill-starred plight, he fled to Marrakesh. The Almohads seized him and then pledged allegiance to Yaḥyā, son of Sultan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, even though (2) only the first down had appeared on his cheeks. Soon reports reached them that Idrīs, son of Sultan Yaʿqūb, had laid claim to the caliphate in Seville. Affairs deteriorated for Yaḥyā: the Bedouin tribes cast covetous eyes upon him, besieged him in Marrakesh, the townspeople wearied of him and expelled him, so the poor fellow fled to a mountain.